**CLOSED** - Starting Your Baking Business - Beta

Seven Steps to Building Your Foundation for Success

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Starting Your Baking Business walks you through the steps to create a business with a strong foundation and puts you on the road to sweet success!

This course teaches you:

  • Baking Business Startup Requirements
  • How to Create a One-Page Business Plan
  • How to Identify Your Ideal Client
  • Marketing and Promotion Strategies
  • Pricing Your Products
  • Making it Legal with Contract, Policies, and Procedures
  • and more!

This course is your complete guide to setting up and starting your cake or baking business!


Includes a companion course workbook to take notes and write down your personal goals and action items.


Course Workbook

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About the Beta Program

This is the beta version of Start Your Baking Business course.

Students get full and unlimited access to the program for 4 months at a greatly discounted rate in exchange for providing feedback, a testimonial, and reviewing the course. This helps us to find errors and make improvements to the final product. The course is designed to be completed in 8-12 hours, with a fully operating business being created within 6 weeks or less.

ACCESS TO THE BETA PROGRAM EXPIRES ON JANUARY 31, 2021


(Results may vary and are not guaranteed. Retail businesses have different requirements and timelines.)

Your Instructor


Sweet Success Magazine
Sweet Success Magazine

Alana Thomas is the editor and publisher of Sweet Success Magazine. Her cake hobby started when she was a child, and grew into a full cake business in the early 2000s. She’s worked in commercial kitchens, hotel resorts in the catering department, and finished out her career as a cottage food baker in 2015.

She is a self-taught baker and designer, and her formal education includes undergraduate and graduate degrees from Texas State University. This combined experience led to the creation of Sweet Success Magazine, and is the first publication that provides business education, resources, and tools exclusively for cake decorators and baking enthusiasts.







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Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish. **Please note that the beta group will have access to the course until January 31, 2021.**
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as it is available in the school - across any and all devices you own, for the lifetime of the course. **Please note that the beta version retires for everyone on January 31, 2021.** Once we retire a course it will no longer be available for access.
What does "Beta" mean
Beta is a test that is done to make sure the course works and is understood as intended. We run a program for a few months in order to get enough people to test out our product. This group of beta testers get the full version, there just might be some flaws and errors. By providing us with feedback (feedback forms are embedded in the course content), the beta groups help us refine our course and make it ready for sale to a larger audience. In exchange for getting a product that is not quite perfect, we offer a generously discounted price.
Why is the price so low? It seems too good to be true.
This price you see here is the price...but *only* for this version. Why? Because it is a beta program. That means we are still testing and finalizing the course to ensure it meets our standard of success. All future versions of the course will be priced at regular retail pricing. This is the FULL version of the course, not a preview or sample. You just might see a few typos, errors, inconsistencies, or glitches. **The beta version does expire for everyone on January 31, 2021 so if you are interested make sure to purchase now at the lowest rate we will ever offer because once it's gone, it's gone!**
Who is this course for? I'm already selling my cakes.
This course is for all bakers and cake decorators who are hobbyists ready to transition into a business or those who have started the process of becoming a registered business and want to make sure all of their bases are covered. There's no tricks or shortcuts here, this course is for those who are ready to take the steps needed to make their business legal and officially open for business. (Note: this information is general and geared primarily towards bakers in the United States.)
I'm not sure I'm ready to start a business right now.
There will always be responsibilities, obligations, and deadlines to meet. You have to decide if creating a baking business is right for you and if today is the day where it will be one of your top priorities. The course is designed to set up your business over the course of several weeks, so you can work at your own pace. We've also included a course workbook that you can download and take notes. This will also give you your personal guide and playbook to set up your business. **Everyone in the beta program will have access to the course materials until January 31, 2021. That is 4 full months to build your baking business.**
How does it work?
The course consists of 8 modules that walk you through all of the steps of building a baking business. You will have a short video explanation of each topic and action items needed to complete each step. There is also a companion course workbook so you can make notes and write down ideas you want to implement as you build your business.
How long will it take to finish the course?
Although you can probably get through all of the content in less time, The course is designed to be completed in just 8-12 hours. In Due to the time it takes to file paperwork and get all aspects of business set up, a realistic expectation is to have a fully operating business created within 4-6 weeks or less.
What if I need help?
All students can leave a question or comment directly within the course and receive assistance.
 

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